Alberto Angela takes us to the Sicily of the Leopard.

The new episode of Ulysses - The Pleasure of Discovery airing tonight on Rai1 at 9:25 p.m. will be dedicated to the Sicily of The Leopard. Alberto Angela will take the audience to the places evoked by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ’s famous novel and Luchino Visconti’s cinematic masterpiece.

They will go toPalermo, discovering the Valguarnera-Gangi palace, the location where the unforgettable dance scene with Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster was filmed. And it will be Claudia Cardinale herself who will recall the atmosphere of those days and behind the scenes of the masterpiece that won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1963. The journey will continue to the baroque Palma di Montechiaro, fiefdom of the princes of Lampedusa, which partly inspired the writer for the town of Donnafugata, in which much of the novel takes place.

Alberto Angela will then enter the cloistered monastery of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Palermo, closed to the public until a few years ago, to recount the recluse days of young Sicilian aristocratic women who were being initiated into religious life. The well-known popularizer will also descend into the famous Capuchin catacombs, where contemporary Palermitans of the “Leopard” were mummified and displayed in their finest clothes and still form an impressive gallery of the society of the time.

There will also be no shortage of naturalistic touches on this Sicilian itinerary, with a visit to the Trapani and Paceco Salt Pans Oriented Nature Reserve, where the coastal landscape is dotted with windmills. Viewers will be accompanied on this journey by the most beautiful images from Luchino Visconti’s recently restored film.

Alberto Angela takes us to the Sicily of the Leopard.

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